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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

The moral answer to North Korea threats: Take them out!

Better a million dead North Koreans than a thousand dead
Americans. The fundamental reason our government exists is to protect
our people and our territory. Everything else is a grace note. And the
words we never should hear in regard to North Korea’s nuclear threats
are “We should’ve done something.”Instead, we should do something. Pyongyang’s Sunday test of a hydrogen bomb of devastating power begs for decisive action. Must we wait until Americans die?A pre-emptive strike against Kim Jong Un’s nuclear and ballistic
missile programs would be a terrible thing, demanding a vast military
effort (if done properly) and leaving broad destruction in its wake. But
that terrible option increasingly appears to be the least bad option.
The question is whether we’ll delay action until it’s too late to save
American lives.When we’re threatened with nuclear destruction by North Korea, a
military response is not unethical. Rather, inviting a North Korean
attack by hesitating endlessly — then witnessing the slaughter of tens,
if not hundreds, of thousands of our citizens — would be unethical and
immoral.We do not want war. That much could not be more obvious. But we
cannot sacrifice American lives to shield the consciences of
intellectual elites who, from protected positions of immense privilege,
insist that all human life is precious, not just our “deplorable”
American lives.If there is any real hope of a peaceful solution, of course that
would be preferable. But we cannot rely on miracles or mirages. A
generation of talks has done nothing but protect North Korea’s weapons
programs. Sanctions haven’t restrained North Korea either, since China,
Russia, India and other states undercut them.

Nor have our displays of force in the region done anything to deter a regime conditioned to our empty pageantry.North Korea doesn’t believe we will act. Because we never have acted.Those wildly misnamed Washington institutions labeled “think tanks”
find themselves stumped: Conditioned to group-think and addicted to that
supreme intellectual opiate, negotiations, we hear — even from
conservative voices — that there’s no military solution, while the left
repeats that “War never changes anything.”As to the latter claim, warfare has been humanity’s ultimate means of
resolving intractable issues since the first cave-dwellers went at the
gang from the cave down yonder with rocks. We may not like it — I don’t —
but to insist that war isn’t humanity’s sometimes-necessary default
means of survival is to ignore all of human history.As for the irresponsible claim that there’s no military solution,
it’s transparently false. Of course there’s a military solution. It’s
horrible, but pulling triggers may be the only option feckless diplomats
and prevaricating administrations have left us to protect our people
and territory.

Again, the primary rationale for our government’s existence is to
protect us from physical harm at the hands of foreign powers. That’s why
we have a military. We are promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness,” not a spineless calculus that protects our enemies rather
than ourselves.If someone screams that they’re going to kill us and points a gun
toward us, we have the legal and ethical right to draw and fire first.
And if the attacker also threatens to kill our wives and children, it
would be immoral not to shoot first.Our North Korea problem comes down to just that.I realize this column will leave liberals aghast, while even
conservatives cling to lullaby chatter. I do not relish death or human
suffering. But it would be immoral to allow North Korea to develop an
arsenal capable of attacking our military, our cities and our allies.How could it be ethically superior and morally correct to permit a
self-declared and virulent enemy to destroy Honolulu, San Diego and
Seattle?We cannot allow moral relativism to butcher Americans. We must deal
with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. And in the real world,
the greatest immorality in war is not killing the enemy. The greatest
immorality would be for our country to lose.

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